languorous

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  1. Affected by languor; exhibiting languor; languid.
  2. Dull; tedious; wearisome; inducing languor. Whom late I left in languorous constraynt. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 9. A medicine in themselves To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson, Princess, vii.
  3. Suggestive of languor; seductive: as, languorous eyes. Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone, Bright eyes, accomplish'd shape, and lang'rous waist. Keats, Posthumous Poems, Sonnet xviii.

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  • He had made it long and almost languorous, all interior play with no foreplay. —  Mary Balogh - Lord Carew's Bride
  • My aunt paused there -- in the days to come I would learn that she always paused there, she took a languorous, almost sensual delight in the land -- and in the valley below I saw the house. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • Jilly looked up at him, then, like a languorous Persian cat, she stretched her lithe body and stood. —  Garwood, Julie - Killjoy.html
  • Here the background was quiet, with languorous oriental music and intoning priests; occasional triangles and cymbals made them jump. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
  • And she wanted him with a languorous, half-drugged desire. —  Longing
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languid ·  sultry ·  voluptuous ·  sensuous ·  seductive ·  drowsy ·  effortless ·  dreamy ·  balmy ·  catlike ·  restful ·  exhilarate
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